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David Goguen

David Goguen is director, institutional sales with PI Financial Corp., where his focus is on the precious metals mining sector. With over 20 years of experience in capital markets servicing institutional and private client client portfolios, Goguen is a chartered financial analyst and has significant experience in institutional sales and raising capital for exploration and development mining companies in the precious metals space in Canada, the United States and internationally.

A concentration of Goguen's is the bi-weekly commentary "Select Golds," which showcases Latin American advanced exploration, emerging producers and junior producing gold mining companies. Goguen follows the sector closely by servicing the top resource investing funds in North America.

Goguen earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Carelton University and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the the CFA Institute.

Recent Interviews

Senior Golds Look to Juniors for Growth: David Goguen (9/10/12) Senior producers seeking to replenish depleted gold reserves will be looking to promising juniors to provide needed ounces, suggests Dave Goguen, director of institutional sales for PI Financial Corp. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, Goguen provides his views on where senior gold producers will be hunting and which companies will meet newly stringent criteria in the risk-averse but increasingly gold-hungry world marketplace of today—and tomorrow.

David Goguen: Four Latin American Junior Takeover Targets Identified (10/31/11) Junior gold explorers are in a predicament; despite record gold bullion prices, stock valuations are suffering. Many of them, even those on the heels of exciting discoveries, are faced with either rounding up the cash and teams needed to build out mines themselves or turning the projects over to companies with the money and infrastructure already in place. In this exclusive interview with The Gold Report, David Goguen, director of institutional sales at PI Financial in Vancouver, discusses the merger and acquisition landscape.

David Goguen: Finding Real Value in the Ground (2/2/11) PI Financial Institutional Sales VP David Goguen sees real potential for share price appreciation in select mining companies with expandable resources. Through their quantitative research report Select Golds, Dave's team, including Associate Brodie Dunlop, are focused on Latin American explorers and producers while searching the globe for companies moving through the industry lifecycle. In this Gold Report exclusive, Dave and Brodie share a few mining plays that offer real opportunity to leverage the power of value.

Recent Quotes

"The operating experience of BTO in Nicaragua has been exceptionally good."
(9/10/12)
B2Gold Corp.
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"AMM is a very disciplined, well-managed project generator with a very good track record of making discoveries."
(9/10/12)
Almaden Minerals Ltd.
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"There's a ready audience of companies that would see NES as a very logical opportunity."
(10/31/11)
Newstrike Capital Inc.
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"SUE is going down two paths at once, making large resource increases while refining feasibility studies."
(10/31/11)
Sulliden Gold Corp.
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